The Hindu 09.11.2010
GHMC planning vertical parking lots
Staff Reporter
Hyderabad: Faced with a severe dearth of parking space, Greater
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to establish vertical
parking lots at eight different locations in the city.
Similar to the multi-floor parking structure, these vertical parking
lots would have three to four floors to accommodate vehicles. However,
the vehicles are parked in different floors using a lift unlike the
multi-floor parking structure, where the vehicle is driven for parking.
In the vertical parking lots, all the floors would be connected
through a lift. A vehicle would be driven into the lift and based on the
space availability, it would be carried to different floors and parked
their, said GHMC Additional Commissioner Rajendra Prasad.
Locations
There are plans to establish these parking lots at Ghansi Bazar,
Khilwat near Lad Bazaar, Passport Office, Paradise Circle, Kukatpally,
Mahatma Gandhi Road, Masab Tank and Koti. Places have been identified at
all these locations, except for Masab Tank and Koti, he informs.
“The practice is already in use abroad. Each parking lot is
constructed in an area of about half acre which accommodates about 300
vehicles. But we propose to construct lots, which would accommodate at
least 500 vehicles,” says Mr. Prasad.
Measuring nearly 30 feet in height, these vertical parking lots would
also be ideal to cater future needs. Given the space crunch and more
importantly the arrival of Metro Rail where tracks are built at a height
of about two to three floors, these parking lots would be convenient to
park vehicles and solve parking problems to a major extent, he
explains.
“Once necessary approvals are obtained for the project, Request for
Proposal would be issued to invite private firms to execute the
project,” says Mr. Prasad.